Will a High-Fructose Diet Make You Stupid?

Can a diet of Twinkies and cola negatively affect your memory? That's what scientists who conducted a study on rats in the Journal of Physiology are suggesting.

"Our study shows that a high-fructose diet harms the brain as well as the body," University of California, Los Angeles, neurosurgeon and study author Fernando Gomez-Pinilla said in a press release. "This is something new."

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